[tip:x86/asm] x86-64: Cleanup some assembly entry points

From: tip-bot for Jan Beulich
Date: Mon Dec 05 2011 - 13:02:47 EST


Commit-ID: f6b2bc847641ea38e2655c8424fef5d2d19f35f9
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f6b2bc847641ea38e2655c8424fef5d2d19f35f9
Author: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:24:10 +0000
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 17:24:43 +0100

x86-64: Cleanup some assembly entry points

system_call_after_swapgs doesn't really benefit from forcing
alignment from it - quite the opposite, native code needlessly
so far got a big NOP instruction inserted in front of it. Xen
being the only user of the separate entry point can well live
with the branch going to three bytes into a cache line.

The compatibility mode ptregs entry points for one can make use
of the GLOBAL() macro, and should be suitably aligned. Their
shared continuation point (ia32_ptregs_common) otoh doesn't need
to be global at all, but should continue to be properly aligned.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ED4CEEA020000780006407D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 7 ++++---
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
index 0d5c279..3e27456 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
@@ -453,8 +453,8 @@ quiet_ni_syscall:
CFI_ENDPROC

.macro PTREGSCALL label, func, arg
- .globl \label
-\label:
+ ALIGN
+GLOBAL(\label)
leaq \func(%rip),%rax
leaq -ARGOFFSET+8(%rsp),\arg /* 8 for return address */
jmp ia32_ptregs_common
@@ -471,7 +471,8 @@ quiet_ni_syscall:
PTREGSCALL stub32_vfork, sys_vfork, %rdi
PTREGSCALL stub32_iopl, sys_iopl, %rsi

-ENTRY(ia32_ptregs_common)
+ ALIGN
+ia32_ptregs_common:
popq %r11
CFI_ENDPROC
CFI_STARTPROC32 simple
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 75f72a5..cfad7fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ ENTRY(system_call)
* after the swapgs, so that it can do the swapgs
* for the guest and jump here on syscall.
*/
-ENTRY(system_call_after_swapgs)
+GLOBAL(system_call_after_swapgs)

movq %rsp,PER_CPU_VAR(old_rsp)
movq PER_CPU_VAR(kernel_stack),%rsp
--
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